Gladiator (movie)

This year's Academy Awards field has done more than most to upend traditional rhythms of Hollywood's awards season, a normally finely-tuned red-carpet ballet. "Not my tempo" — the indelible line from J.K. Simmons' music instructor in the best-picture nominated "Whiplash" — has been the season's mantra.

The critical favorite, Richard Linklater's "Boyhood," was the front-runner for much of the season, only to be seemingly usurped by the industry's choice, "Birdman (or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)," which swept the guild awards. Momentum — the most...

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Studio execs from 20th Century Fox met with Oscar consultants a few days ago to mull this question: What happens when the year's most acclaimed acting turn to date comes in a movie that skews about two generations too young for most film academy members?...

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Director Steve McQueen's third feature, "Twelve Years a Slave," screened for the first time Friday evening at the Telluride Film Festival with reviews so strong that its inclusion in this year's Oscar race appears inevitable. While extremely...

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